New Blog Post at Creative Schizophrenia

Schizoaffective Disorder and Spirituality

My Latest Entry on My "Creative Schizophrenia" Blog

Schizoaffective Disorder and Weight Gain

My latest Healthyplace blog post is live!

Schizophrenia versus Schizoaffective Disorder

My Latest Healthyplace Blog

Schizo-Affective Disorder and What It's Like to Hear Voices

About Elizabeth Caudy, Author of Creative Schizophrenia

About Elizabeth Caudy, Author of Creative Schizophrenia

This Video Is my first Blog Entry for Healthyplace!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOd8ahAiOV0

Ode to My Armpit Hair

This picture was taken several weeks ago at least, so my armpit hair has grown in even more since then! I was thinking of shaving it, but not only do I not like shaving it, I LOVE MY ARMPIT HAIR! I love the way my clothes are starting to tug on it. I just love the way it feels to have hair under there. It feels like a real part of my body, like my arm, and to remove it would be an act of violence. Through all this, I still shave my legs, which is a fact I struggle with. I also love that it's a distinctive thing about me other than the fact that I have two mental illnesses.

Which I guess is what I really wanted to write about: the fact that I feel like I don't have an identity outside of having mental illness. Which sucks, and makes me obsess about my illness, which makes me even more depressed. And I think that's what my armpit hair is all about: doing something different. Different on a lot of levels. Living feminism when the dependence on other people my illness manipulates me into makes me feel like anything but an independent woman. Yet, I don't think my armpit hair is totally about feminism. I just like it.